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Static, low-bandwidth search that indexes your built site at build time; no server needed.

Algolia's free crawler-powered search UI for developer documentation sites.

Fast, typo-tolerant open-source search engine in Rust with hybrid search and simple setup.

Open-source, in-memory search engine and Algolia alternative with typo tolerance and vector search.

Head to head

Metric	Pagefind	DocSearch	Meilisearch	Typesense
Stars	5.6k	4.4k	59.8k	27.1k
Weekly downloads	3.5M	2.1M	n/a	n/a
Download growth	+122%	+83%	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	75/100	72/100	87/100	81/100
Forks	219	443	2.8k	1k
Open issues	118	85	315	930
Last commit	4d ago	5d ago	6d ago	5d ago
Latest version	1.6.0	5.2.0	n/a	n/a
License	MIT	MIT	n/a	GPL-3.0
First released	2022	2015	2018	2017
Signals	Trending	Trending (detected automatically)Popular	None	None
Listed in	CMS, Content & Commerce › Site Search	CMS, Content & Commerce › Site Search	Databases › Search Engines CMS, Content & Commerce › Site Search	Databases › Search Engines CMS, Content & Commerce › Site Search

Weekly downloads over time

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Pagefind
DocSearch